2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 7 - RULES OF THE ROAD
Article 34-C - (1270 - 1277) OPERATION OF ELECTRIC PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILITY DEVICES
1277 - Leaving the scene of an incident involving an electric personal assistive mobility device without reporting.


NY Veh & Traf L § 1277 (2012) What's This?
 
    §  1277.  Leaving  the  scene  of  an  incident  involving an electric
  personal assistive mobility device without reporting. 1. (a) Any  person
  eighteen  years of age or older operating an electric personal assistive
  mobility device who, knowing or having  cause  to  know,  that  physical
  injury,  as  defined  in  subdivision nine of section 10.00 of the penal
  law, has been caused to another person, due to  the  operation  of  such
  electric personal assistive mobility device by such person shall, before
  leaving  the place where such physical injury occurred, stop and provide
  his or her name and residence, including street and  street  number,  to
  the injured party, if practical, and also to a police officer, or in the
  event  that  no  police  officer is in the vicinity of the place of said
  injury,  then  such  person  shall  report  said  incident  as  soon  as
  physically able to the nearest police station or judicial officer.
    (b)  A  violation  of  paragraph  (a)  of  this subdivision shall be a
  violation.
    2. (a) Any person eighteen years of age or older operating an electric
  personal assistive mobility device who, knowing or having cause to know,
  that serious physical injury, as defined in subdivision ten  of  section
  10.00  of  the  penal law, has been caused to another person, due to the
  operation of such electric personal assistive mobility  device  by  such
  person  shall,  before  leaving  the  place  where such serious physical
  injury occurred, stop  and  provide  his  or  her  name  and  residence,
  including  street and street number, to the injured party, if practical,
  and also to a police officer, or in the event that no police officer  is
  in  the  vicinity  of  the  place of said injury, then such person shall
  report said incident as soon as physically able to  the  nearest  police
  station or judicial officer.
    (b)  A violation of paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be a class
  B misdemeanor.

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